In most web applications there will be some restricted content – whether that is administrative functions such as managing comments or simply content that is a bit sensitive and needs someone to be signed up to see it. Obviously this kind of thing is key to the application so it is often built into the application in a very specific way.
Here’s why I think that’s a bad thing, and how to do it in a much more generic fashion…

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This tutorial will explain many small techniques which will, hopefully, help optimize your php scripts. I considered myself a bit of a PHP pro until I started researching some of this stuff and realized that there is a whole realm of information out there about optimizing php that I didn’t know about. I hope you will be as surprised as I was about some of the things you might learn from this article.

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Well I hope you are all enjoying the new Progtuts website. We have had some nice tutorials published in the last 2 weeks and we are looking forward to many more.

I’d like to introduce our new writer Jamie. Jamie will be helping me write tutorials for Progtuts on a regular basis so that you guys get more quality tutorials. Why not have a look at Jamie’s first post that was published yesterday: Model View Controller with Java. Remember though we are always looking for new writers and contributers.

As for other news there are a few things on the horizon. One of which might be a forum to encourage the community to share and to provide a place to chat and ask questions. So keep your eyes peeled.

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The aim of this tutorial is to introduce the use of a coding style called Model View Controller. You may well have heard of this already, but probably haven’t seen how to put it into practice.
I’m going to use Java to demonstrate it as it is a very commonly used Object Oriented programming language that uses a similar syntax to many other languages.

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When creating desktop applications it is sometimes necessary for the application to run in the background, for example firewall, anti-virus and media player software. Instead of permanently taking up space in your taskbar these applications are accessible from the system tray.

This tutorial will show you how to do this in a C# application using Microsoft Visual Studio. I will also show you how to add a right click context menu to the tray icon and how to programmatically change the tray icon.

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I suppose one of the strangest thing about standards is there are so many of them. For most programmers this is probably a familiar issue. Style and standards are pretty much dependent on the programmer or the company rather than the language, which defeats the purpose a wee bit. The only solid fundamental is that style and standards are used to make code more legible. How easy is your code to read?

Most of the debate revolves around indent style but other arguments arise about commenting, identifier naming, spacing etc. So lets have a look and see what we can find.

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This tutorial will cover how to create an Email Form using AJAX (specifically using the Prototype javascript library and the Livevalidation javascript library) and PHP. I will assume you have at least a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript.

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